Experts examine the ways digital tools affect social and cultural experience.
The essays in Small Tech investigate the cultural impact of digital tools and provide fresh perspectives on mobile technologies such as iPods, digital cameras, and PDAs and software functions like cut, copy, and paste and WYSIWYG. Together they advance new thinking about digital environments.
“Small Tech is. . . a way to enrich one’s social life and sense of connectedness to a diverse range of individuals. It has been argued that the Internet increases people’s social capital, but this book suggests that the possibilities are even more promising.” —Surveillance & Society
Contributors: Wendy Warren Austin, Jim Bizzocchi, Collin Gifford Brooke, Paul Cesarini, Veronique Chance, Johanna Drucker, Jenny Edbauer, Robert A. Emmons Jr., Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Richard Kahn, Douglas Kellner, Karla Saari Kitalong, Steve Mann, Lev Manovich, Adrian Miles, Jason Nolan, Julian Oliver, Mark Paterson, Isabel Pedersen, Michael Pennell, Joanna Castner Post, Teri Rueb, James J. Sosnoski, Lance Strate, Jason Swarts, Barry Wellman, Sean D. Williams, Jeremy Yuille.
Byron Hawk is assistant professor of English at George Mason University. David M. Rieder is assistant professor of English at North Carolina State University. Ollie Oviedo is associate professor of English at Eastern New Mexico University.
272 pages | 46 b&w photos, 6 tables | 7 x 10 | 2008
Electronic Mediations Series, volume 22
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: On Small Tech and Complex Ecologies
Byron Hawk and David M. Rieder
I. Traditional Software in New Ecologies
1. Data Visualization as New Abstraction and as Anti-Sublime
Lev Manovich
2. Softvideography: Digital Video as Postliterate Practice
Adrian Miles
3. Technopolitics, Blogs, and Emergent Media Ecologies: A Critical/Reconstructive Approach
Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner
4. Remembering Dinosaurs: Toward an Archaeological Understanding of Digital Photo Manipulation
Karla Saari Kitalong
5. Cut, Copy, and Paste
Lance Strate
6. Dreamweaver and the Procession of Simulations: What You See Is Not Why You Get What You Get
Sean D. Williams
7. Revisiting the Matter and Manner of Linking in New Media
Collin Gifford Brooke
8. ScriptedWriting() { Exploring Generative Dimensions of Writing in Flash Actionscript
David M. Rieder
II. Small Tech and Cultural Contexts
Overhearing: The Intimate Life of Cell Phones
Jenny Edbauer
I am a DJ, I am What I Say: The Rise of Podcasting
Paul Cesarini
Walking with Texts: Using PDAs to Manage Textual Information
Jason Swarts
Text Messaging: Rhetoric in a New Keypad
Wendy Warren Austin
Beyond Napster: Peer-to-Peer Technology and Network Culture
Michael Pennell
Communication Breakdown: The Postmodern Space of Google
Johndan Johnson-Eilola
Let There Be Light in the Digital Darkroom: Digital Ecologies and the New Photography
Robert A. Emmons Jr.
“A Demonstration of Practice”: The Real Presence of Digital Video
Veronique Chance
Buffering Bergson: Matter and Memory in 3D Games
Julian Oliver
Shifting Subjects in Locative Media
Teri Rueb
III. Future Technologies and Ambient Environments
9. Virtual Reality as a Teaching Tool: Learning by Configuring
James J. Sosnoski
10. Digital Provocations and Applied Aesthetics: Projects in Speculative Computing
Johanna Drucker
11. De-Humanization, Rhetoric, and the Design of Wearable Augmented Reality Interfaces
Isabel Pedersen
12. Sousveillance: Wearable and Digital Tools in Surveilled Environments
Steve Mann, Jason Nolan, and Barry Wellman
13. Ambient Video: The Transformation of the Domestic Cinematic Experience
Jim Bizzocchi
14. Sound in Domestic Virtual Environments
Jeremy Yuille
15 . Getting Real and Feeling in Control: Haptic Interfaces
Joanna Castner Post
16. Digital Craft and Digital Touch: Hands-On Design with an “Undo” Button
Mark Paterson
Contributors
Index |
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